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Tag Archives: Robyn Hitchcock

Aaaah, 3-day weekend

It’s early afternoon on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend – meaning we still have another day off. I woke up at 6:30, (well, after waking at 2:00 and at 5:10 or so to feed the cats) and went back to sleep until 7:12, instead of lying awake worrying like I have the last few [...]

Arriving in the UK

We arrived at Heathrow at about 7:30 a.m. Monday, March 29.
We had to shuffle through the passport check, then got our bags, took the train to Paddington, and then a taxi to our apartment in Camden.
We got settled then went to the close-by Waitrose and bought some food – cheese, pears, buns, yogurt, strawberries. Then [...]

Artists’ Intent

When I was an art history student, we were taught that you have to judge the art on its own and not try to create a facile explanation based on what you know about the artist’s life – or your own.
So I was amused by the serious question asked, around minute 2:21, in thisĀ  interview [...]

“Ordinary Millionaire”

Lyrics by Robyn Hitchcock, music by Johnny Marr – performed by RH in Chicago, March 5, at Schuba’s.

Also, with the full band, from Robyn’s web site, and a supporting cast of thousands, or at least dozens – love the steamer.

Recipe work

Reading this article by Marcelle Richards of Gastroapocalypse Test Kitchen, on working up a recipe for parsnip-pink-peppercorn cake, inspired by carrot cake, made me realize that I haven’t been working on recipes much recently. I’ve been making little tweaks, but not putting a couple of patterns together to come up with something new. Maybe the [...]

Happy New Year!

I thought it would take longer to do the new Word Press Debslunch, but it was easy peasy. I’m trying a theme by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick, which I think is the basis for Robyn Hitchcock’s new Word press site. It also seems to have a really nice little photo gallery in a [...]